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Votes at a glance: Swain County Board of Education actions, April 1, 2025
Summary
The board approved the consent agenda (personnel and minutes), appointed an athletic director, approved budget amendments and approved the LS3P construction contract; it also took a closed-session vote under state statute.
The Swain County Board of Education took the following formal actions April 1. Vote descriptions follow the motions as they were stated on the record.
- Approval of consent agenda (personnel and minutes): A board member moved and another seconded a motion "to approve the consent agenda for personnel" including minutes from March 4 and March 10, 2025. The motion was approved by voice and show of hands and recorded as passing on the record.
- Appointment of athletic director: A board member recommended the board approve Scotty McMahon as athletic director. The motion received a second and was called for a show-of-hands vote; the chair announced the motion passed (transcript records the board’s call for opposed/abstentions and then the chair’s statement indicating the motion passed on the record).
- Approval of budget amendments: A motion to approve the budget amendments was made and seconded; the board approved the budget amendments by show-of-hands vote.
- Approval of LS3P contract: A motion to approve the LS3P construction-manager/architect contract was made and seconded. The board approved the LS3P contract by show-of-hands; the chair announced the motion passed unanimously.
- Motion to enter closed session: A board member made a motion for the board to enter closed session pursuant to General Statute 143-318.11 under the subsections read into the record. The motion was seconded and approved by show-of-hands; the board recessed into closed session and later returned to open session.
The meeting transcript does not include full roll-call tallies or named yes/no votes for each board member in all instances; votes were taken by voice/show-of-hands and recorded as passing in the minutes.
